I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.

He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.

Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.